@Ryan: Thanks, buddy! Channelate has quite possibly been an influence for the darker stuff, actually. :D

@Yacine: Definitely! I thought about using either “It’s to die for!” or “You’ll die laughing!” as a tagline below the sign in panel one, but figured it would get a bit too text-heavy. Oh, and “It ain’t your therapist’s office!” is absolutely my favorite. :D

@Trevory: Hah, was thinking about that as well. I’ve used the ‘someone dies’ tag on a couple other strips earlier where the actual death is only implied, but on this particular strip I figured it would perhaps be slightly funnier in a backwards ironic way if I omitted it.

It looks grim for the smartly dressed theme park proprietor, but don’t count him out yet.
That’s probably a novelty “Pseudocide Gun” from one of his many fully stocked gift shops. When he pulls the trigger it’ll splatter his head with tomato sauce.

It reminds of a New Jersey amusement park I loved as a teenager called Action Park – on Staten Island we actually called it Suicide Park. It had basically no safety regulations or protocols, like it was designed and built by drunken college kids. That’s wasn’t true, of course – it was only operated by drunken college kids.

It was the source of so many injuries they had to buy the Mount Vernon hospital extra ambulances!